I took a flyer on a carbonzone (eBay store) stem. OEM stem was starting to look a little beat up, rusted, and I just never liked it much anyway. Carbonzone products seem to have a good rep, especially their wheels. The only other Chinese manufacturer I tried was someone else and it was handlebars (turns out they were a 3T Ergonova knockoff - I didn't know that when I bought them) - not impressed with the bars at all and didn't install them.

Anyway went ahead and installed the new stem. It looks nice - UD carbon, and it feels stiff so far (we'll see about that on a ride though). It came in at 126 grams(110mm) for what its worth which is about 30 grams lighter than the OEM for the weight weenies. Not really a big deal though.

Just curious if anyone else has given these a try?